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Predictable, yet varied BSODs...

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Cymera

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Hello all!

I am hoping someone could direct me to an answer for the BSODs I have been having for the past few months. I believe it began in the mid summer, with consistent BS after ~60-90min playing Company of Heroes. Since then, I have completely reinstalled Windows, checked my memory three times with memtest86+ for over 10hrs each time. Stress tested my CPU for ~4 hours with p95, and stress tested my GPU using Furmark for ~4 hours. I even ran p95 and Furmark together for over an hour, no BS with any of the tests.

Because I am generally very busy with work, I didn't get a chance to reinstall Windows until the 2nd week of September. Everything seemed fine - no BS on installation and I played through all of Crysis 2 with no issues (right before the reinstall, I would have a BS within 20-30 min of play pretty consistently with that game) over the course of a few days.

Since then, I have tried other games, and some have had BSODs. However, they do not seem to come as regularly, and most of them are just immediate restarts, no actual Blue Screen.

I have never been quite sure what information to post to diagnose these things, so please let me know what I should put up.

My hardware is outlined in my signature - the only recent changes have been a new GPU and PSU, but the BSODs seem to have started a few months after I installed the new hardware.

Please let me know if I should post any other information.

Thanks in advance!
 
If the BDODs are game specific then try older drivers, or the ones that come through windows update.
 
I got two tonight playing the Battlefield 3 Beta, but I didn't get any the past week. Also, my wife used to get them a lot in Sims 3 before the format, since the format, she's gotten maybe one, and she plays often enough.

All the bluescreens seem to involve ntoskrnl.exe+7c1e9, thoughts?
 
Do you have any diagnostic software such as pc-check that you can run on your system? I have seen bad cpu cache that causes various BSOD, but still can run prime 95 all day without error.
 
Take the video card out. clean the card and mobo connection.( windows update the drivers.)if more BSOD change card.
 
paul878 said:
Do you have any diagnostic software such as pc-check that you can run on your system? I have seen bad cpu cache that causes various BSOD, but still can run prime 95 all day without error.
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I have a friend who uses PC-Check, I will borrow it from him and give it a try.

denis280 said:
Take the video card out. clean the card and mobo connection.( windows update the drivers.)if more BSOD change card.
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I will try that as well. I certainly hope it is not the card, damn thing is only a few months old!
 
Thank you for all the help everyone! I think I may have solved it, almost by accident.

I had another BSOD, but this one reset my BIOS settings (OC, etc.). This time, I decided to re-apply the changes to everything except the CPU, so no overclock, and no other changes. Since then, no BSODs! I'm not sure if it was the OC, which I've been running for three years, or another, far more recent changed I read about (I think it was disabling C1E) and applied.

Anyway, after another few days or a week of testing on default I'll try a light overclock.

Thanks for all the insight!
 
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